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Live Trane: The European Tours

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John Coltrane

 
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Live Trane: The European Tours

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Over eight hours of the sax giant onstage and in his prime.

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    Taken from the tapes of Coltrane's European tours in 1963-65, featuring the classic quartet (McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, and Elvin Jones) with Eric Dolphy added on, this is blazing stuff. Coltrane was on the edge of taking his next leap — still playing his standards but extending the experimentation, stretching the harmonies, accelerating the tempo, to the edge. Dolphy, the natural successor to Charlie Parker, was his ideal co-pilot. If this is just too much music, [i][url="/album/10603/10603450.html"]Bye, Bye Blackbird[/url][/i], taken from the same period, is the next-best.

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    This Japanese three-LP box set from the German company BYG captures Coltrane at four separate European concerts from a four-year period. At a Stockholm concert from Nov. 22, 1961, Coltrane and his Quintet (with Eric Dolphy on alto, flute and bass clarinet, pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Reggie Workman and drummer Elvin Jones) perform a 20-minute "My Favorite Things" and much more concise versions of "Naima," "Blue Train" and "Impressions." The classic Quartet (with Tyner, bassist Jimmy Garrison and Jones) interprets "I Want to Talk About You," "Traneing In," "Spiritual" and "Mr. P.C." at a Stockholm concert from Oct. 22, 1963, and the same group at concerts in Antibes and Paris on July 27 and 28, 1965 really tears into "Blue Valse," "Afro Blue," "Naima" and two versions of "Impressions." This hard-to-find set, even if the liner notes are in Japan, is highly recommended to true John Coltrane fans, for these live recordings are often quite intense and dazzling, particularly the later performances.

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